March 10, 2011

Let's all flop down on the sidewalk and draw each other's dead body outlines.

No, no, no... we're not drawing blue violins with musical notes drifting up out of them. This isn't about art, it's politics. Not violins. Violence! The government is killing us! Come on, it's great fun! Come roll around on the sidewalk with us. We're the victims!

(A photo by Meade, taken this afternoon, in the aftermath of the union-busting vote.)

Meanwhile, Democrat WI State Assemblyman, Mark Pocan, posts on his website page a photo of Wisconsin Police in riot gear, standing in a hallway, with this comment underneath:

"Police in riot gear at Capitol, for chickenshit Repubicans to enter building. Unbelievable."

No, Pocan, what's unbelievable is that you even got elected. Let 10 TEA Partiers block your way into the Capitol and you would be crapping your pants and calling for your mommie to bring the police in riot gear.

So while your comrades hang out in Illinois, Walker and the Republicans head fakes you.

I know that's ironic, but how about reframing the issue as "civil service reform": taking the politics out of government jobs by ending the cycle of forced union dues being funneled from the public treasury to Democrat party coffers.

The machine gun, commonly known as a Tommy Gun... in popular culture has come to be identified with gangland shootings and gunfights as depicted in movies such as The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery.

Casias says some hotel managers were even reluctant to rent rooms to “musicians” because it was feared they were actually veiled gangsters hiding the Tommy Gun in a violin case, hence the colloquially popular phrase, “Let me play you a tune on my violin.”.

Wow, jaed, I think you nailed the reasons for this particular kind of tagteaming at protests. I think (1) is what they want others to think, (2) what they want others to have in the back of their minds and (3) reality.

These perpetual members of the self-imposed victim class actually seem to get reaffirmation from events that don't conform to their non-conformity. Chalk outlines of victims of violence should not be used for childish fantasies of self-imposed persecution.

While we have fun laughing at this, I give you this quote from a reporter who spent the night in the capitol: And yet there hasn't been a single episode of serious conflict between protesters or with the police. And there's no sign of any such confrontation to come. How is this possible? It's not an accident, and it's not a miracle. It's the product of a sophisticated, unbreakable culture that has evolved in the hallways of the Occupied Capitol. And that's exactly why Scott Walker is so desperately tightening the screws.

While we have fun laughing at this, I give you this quote from a reporter who spent the night in the capitol: And yet there hasn't been a single episode of serious conflict between protesters or with the police.

Yes, and while idiots draw chalk outlines of themselves, because a lawful legislature passes a law bring state unions in line with federal unions; we really see the comparison of death and related news from WI to Japan.

They lost in election in November. They lost the legislative battle. Now they are going to lose the national news coverage. Time to go back and do the jobs they were hired to do.